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Why Is .ico Used For Favicon Instead Of Other Formats? by Lastdon02(m): 7:38am On Mar 21, 2015
have been wondring why most template and website favicon comes with .ico even tho .png,gif,jpg can work instead ?
Re: Why Is .ico Used For Favicon Instead Of Other Formats? by micodon(m): 8:03am On Mar 21, 2015
why is .html used for html files?
Re: Why Is .ico Used For Favicon Instead Of Other Formats? by Nobody: 8:06am On Mar 21, 2015
micodon:
why is .html used for html files?
nice answer

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Re: Why Is .ico Used For Favicon Instead Of Other Formats? by seunoni34(m): 8:48am On Mar 21, 2015
Lastdon02:
have been wondring why most template and website favicon comes with .ico even tho .png,gif,jpg can work instead ?
YOU can use other formats now. I use .png files and it works perfectly. Haven't you seen sites that use animated gifs as favicon brfore6?
Re: Why Is .ico Used For Favicon Instead Of Other Formats? by onyengbu: 9:44am On Mar 21, 2015
pureguide:
nice answer
not a nice answer. His answer suggests that .ico files are exclusively required for favicons which is incorrect:

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Re: Why Is .ico Used For Favicon Instead Of Other Formats? by Nobody: 10:35am On Mar 21, 2015
onyengbu:
not a nice answer. His answer suggests that .ico files are exclusively required for favicons which is incorrect:
bad quote

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Re: Why Is .ico Used For Favicon Instead Of Other Formats? by micodon(m): 11:37am On Mar 21, 2015
onyengbu:
not a nice answer. His answer suggests that .ico files are exclusively required for favicons which is incorrect:

is .html exclusively required for html files? Read inbetween the lines before you attack someone.
Re: Why Is .ico Used For Favicon Instead Of Other Formats? by onyengbu: 11:49am On Mar 21, 2015
micodon:


is .html exclusively required for html files? Read inbetween the lines before you attack someone.
First your definition of 'attack' appears to be warped. Secondary, what other files have .html extension.
I honestly need to learn this one. I am not 'attacking' this time.
Re: Why Is .ico Used For Favicon Instead Of Other Formats? by micodon(m): 11:54am On Mar 21, 2015
onyengbu:
First your definition of 'attack' appears to be warped. Secondary, what other files have .html extension.
I honestly need to learn this one. I am not 'attacking' this time.

there's the .htm format. Server side language parsers process their respective language scripts and spit out html. understood why i asked that rhetorical question yet?
Re: Why Is .ico Used For Favicon Instead Of Other Formats? by onyengbu: 12:17pm On Mar 21, 2015
micodon:

there's the .htm format. Server side language parsers process their respective language scripts and spit out html. understood why i asked that rhetorical question yet?
There seems to be some misunderstanding here sir. I asked what other 'files' uses .html extension because you I thought you made me believe there is. We were neither talking about .htm nor talking about what any sever 'spits' out because that would be talking about a whole new extension or raising a question of whether what exactly servers 'spit' out.I seriously do not intend to continue the discuss as it will amout to a complete waste of time and unnecessary show of idiocy or superiority of knowledge.
Forgive if I came accross as have attacked someone. I did not.
Re: Why Is .ico Used For Favicon Instead Of Other Formats? by cyrielo(m): 12:35pm On Mar 21, 2015
Simple answer .ico is the recommended image format.

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Re: Why Is .ico Used For Favicon Instead Of Other Formats? by micodon(m): 1:03pm On Mar 21, 2015
cyrielo:
Simple answer .ico is the recommended image format.
Re: Why Is .ico Used For Favicon Instead Of Other Formats? by Lastdon02(m): 8:23pm On Mar 22, 2015
lol nairaland Mods abi na spam bot ni them ban me for 2days watin i una self?
Re: Why Is .ico Used For Favicon Instead Of Other Formats? by cbrass(m): 11:45pm On Mar 22, 2015
It's the extension of the image created with that platform so it will carry it's own extension and not another image extension . It's just like writing a code in PHP and now asking why it wasnt in .js extension, you can see that it doesn't make sense

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